ABSTRACT Environmental compliance is one of the key components of the life of any mining project, especially in Rwanda rich Artisanal and Small-Scale Mines (ASM) which maintains the livelihood of thousands of miners ...

Habitat loss and fragmentation are major threats to primate populations globally. Many primate species exhibit great flexibility to adapt to habitat change through alterations in multiple aspects of their behavioral ecology. ...

Urbanization is one of the great challenges in the 21st century. Despite being an engine for the global economy, urban areas consume 78% of World,s energy and emit more than 60% of greenhouse gas emission. Sub-Saharan ...

Cities shape our social-economic and environmental aspects of life, they are the engines of economic development and attractive places for people seeking employment and better quality of life. However, observed rapid urban ...

The detection of infectious diseases is imperative in biomedicine and safety. Thus, rapid, sensitive and specific diagnostics remains to be accelerated and prioritized. CRISPR-Cas system has been currently exploited in ...

Dissolved organic carbon (DOC) is a general description of the organic material dissolved in water. DOC is an important source of energy, carbon, and nutrient transfers from terrestrial to aquatic ecosystems. The export ...

Privacy of information is a critical issue for e‐government service development as lack of it negatively influences users' trust and adoption. To earn user trust, government organizations need to provide reliable privacy ...

Context: High computing system performance depends on the interaction between software and hardware layers in modern computer systems. Two strong trends that effect different layers in computer systems are that single ...

The main idea of the thesis is to develop new connections between the theory of real interpolation and applications. Near and exact minimizers for E–, K– and L–functionals of the theory of real interpolation are very ...

The exploding increase of wireless communications combined with the existing inefficient usage of the licensed spectrum gives a strong impetus to the development and standardization of cognitive radio networking and ...